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cellent workmanthip, and in “a good fate: of 
prefervation, was formerly in the Gallery 
at Verfailles. Mellan publified a print 
of it. : 
No. 153. A beautiful coloffal But of 
Serapis ; from the Vatican Mufeum. 
No. 154. A Mercury, of Pentelican mar- 
ble, exaétly in the attitude of that of the 
Vatican, No. 125... This was fill more: 
clearly charaéterifed by fome attributes in the 
head, for inftance, he had two holes, into 
which the wings had evidently been fixed 5 
and part of the caduceus is likewife ancient. 
No. 355. The Capitoline Funo; according 
to others, a Melpomene. From the Mufeum 
Capitolinum. abla 
No. 156. One of the moft beautiful ftatues 
of Bacchus extant, of Pentelican marble. 
He is quite naked, and in a carelefs manner 
refts his left-arm on the trunk of atree. The 
head, which is ina ftate of perfe& prefervation, 
and from which the long locks of hair flow 
down to the breaft, is encircled with ivy and 
the Bacchic fillet. pene 
No. 157. Over the Bacchus a bas-relief is 
fixed into the wall. It is modelled after one 
in the Villa -Borghefe, and reprefents five 
young women, holding one another’s hands, 
and dancing round a temple. 
VI. Salles des Mufes.*—No. 165. A head 
of Bacchus. 
No. 166. <A pillar of Oriental granite 5 
fomewhat dark-grey and green, with flight 
fhadowings of tofe-colour, and white fpots. 
The bafe and capital are of bronze, gilded, and 
richly ornamented. ee 
No. 167. A Head of Hippocrates, as it 1s 
called. Of Pentelican marble. 
No. 168. Calliope.—From the Meufeum Pio- 
Clementinum, 
No. 169. pollo Mufagera—From the: 
fame. : 
No 170. Clio—From the fame. 
No. 1713. ~ Melpomene.—From the fame. 
No. 172. A Hermes of Pentelican marble, 
with a head of Sverates: It is engraved andde- 
fcribed in the VIth Vol. of the Mufeum Pio- 
Clementinum. 
No. 173- Polyhymnia.—From the fame 
Mufeum. 
No. 174. Head of an Indian bearded 
Bacchus; long fuppoted to be a head of 
Pleto. 
No.175. The Buftof Homer, from the Ca- 
pitoline-Mufeum. 
No.°176.° Erato. 
No. 178. Luterpe. 
No, 179. Terpfckore. 
No. 130. Urania. 
No. 131. Thelia.—All Ave from the Mu- 
feum Pio-Clementinum. 
No. 1947. A Enripides- Hermes, of Pentelican 
marble; ftood formerly inthe Academy of 
' Mantua; aslikewife, 
= 
* Hall of the -Mutes, 
Gallery of Antiques in the Paris Mufeum. 
[Aug fr, 
_ No. 184. The Head of Virgil, as it is 
called. - 2 
No, 182. Another Head of Socrates. 
No. 183. Avery beautiful pillar of African’ 
marble. ; a 
Thefe are the antiques which are at 
prefent placed in the fix apartments which 
have already been opened. When the 
whole is completed, the principal entrance 
will be in front, immediately from the Place 
de Louvre into the Hall which in the 
Plan is called Hallof the Turfo. Whether 
more apartments will be fitted up for the 
reception of antiques, is not yet deter- 
mined upon ; but it is very probable that 
there will, efpecially if all the relievos and 
{maller antiques, which are partly very 
difadvantageoufly placed in. the upper 
rooms of the Gallery of Paintings, and 
partly in the National Library, fhould be 
united to the Central Mufeum: 
In fome of the rooms, as for inftance 
in that of the Belvedere Apollo, the win- 
dows are built up breaft-high; denoted in 
the plan hy parallel lines. In winter the 
rooms are well warmed, by means of flues 
or tuyaux de chaleur, as they are called. 
In the veftibule through which the vifitors 
at prefent pafs into the inner court, fome 
modern bronzes are placed, cccc inthe Plan. 
In the Hall of Ilufirious Men, pillars 
ftarid on a brealt-high wall, 64, by 
which the halls are feparated from one 
another. During the firft three decades 
after the opening of the Gallery, the afflux 
of gaping fpeétators was, as it might be 
expected, very great,and fomewhat trouble- 
fome to artifts and real amateurs. But 
the flood of public curiofity will foon fub. 
fide, and then nothing can furpafs the ftill 
“enjoyment of the fpeétacle here prefented 
to the man of tafte.—The light, upon the 
whole, is excellent, and the diftribution of | 
the ftatues has been made with great judg- 
ment, as in general they occupy in. the 
very high apartments the places where 
they may be viewed to the greateft advan- 
tage. ‘Tbe group of the Laocoon, in par- 
ticular, whenyften from the principal en- 
trance,will have a more fubdlime effeGt, than 
even Apollo of Belvedere at prefent when 
viewed from the Hall of the Laocoon.— 
That the f{culptors of the New French 
fchool are not unworthy of daily having 
before them the moft perfect medels of 
antiquity, will probably foon be proved, 
by the increafing excellency of their pro- 
duétions. At leaft we may augur well 
from the bas-relief, of four feet and a 
half, by Mozlle, which, foon after the open- 
ing of the exhibition, was placed over 
the door that at prefent leads to the Gal- 
lery. 
